Time lapse video captures Sydney’s lost nightlife
Adding to the debate about Sydney’s controversial lock-out laws comes a new time-lapse video.
The aim is to remind people about all the great venues that have shut their doors over the past few years as a result of the laws.
The video was put together by Sydney production company Shifted Pictures which spent months creating the mini-movie Closed Sydney.
The film has cameras panning deserted streets at closed venues like The Flinders Hotel, Hugos, Soho and Darlinghurst’s Exchange Hotel.
All this to the background of musical accompaniment of a song Say Goodbye, penned by Art vs Sciences Jim Finn.
It took the film makers up to an hour to shoot each shot.
In the end, the final product consisted of over 3,800 individual stills combined into a video.
Shifted Pictures co-founders Dave May and Tim Pass have been associated with the music scene for years so they bring lots of first hand knowledge.
They have worked with the industry, filming live performances and music videos.
“Deciding to create this project was easy. It was something we were passionate about. But when it came to actually going out and spending hours on those empty streets, that’s when it really sank in. Every other window has a ‘For Lease’ sign in it and it was just so eerily quiet,” the pair said in a statement.
“When we did run into locals they would just tell us that the place was ‘dead’ now. That it had lost its soul. It wasn’t the Kings Cross they knew.”
Jim Finn said the lockout laws go to the heart of the city’s creativity.
“A city’s nightlife is the heart of its creative culture. Grand plans and grander ideas are born from bars, clubs and dance floors. Where friends and lovers are forged in the later hours,’’ Finn told musicfeeds.com.au
“To kill this is to stop the beating heart of a city’s creative soul, to snuff out relationships before they can take a breath. Goodbye art. Goodbye love.”
by Leon Gettler, July 4th 2016
